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1-7 USING TOO + ADJECTIVE + INFlNlTlVl<br />

(a) Susie can't go to school because she is too young.<br />

(b) Susie is too young to go to school.<br />

(a) and (b) have the same meaning.<br />

TOO + ADIECTNE + INmNmvE<br />

(c) Susie is too young to 80 to school.<br />

(d) Peggy is too short to reach the cookie jar.<br />

(e) Bob is too tired to do his homework.<br />

EXERCISE 17: Make sentences with the same meaning by using an infinitive after too +<br />

ADJECTIVE.<br />

-<br />

1. Mr.<br />

-<br />

Cook is old. He can't drive a car anymore.<br />

Mr. Cook is<br />

1 to drive I a car.<br />

too t adjective t infinitive<br />

2. Susie doesn't want to go to the party because she is tired.<br />

-+ Susie is I Ito the party.<br />

100 + adjedve + infinitive<br />

3. Robert is short. He can't touch the ceiling.<br />

+ Robert is the ceiling.<br />

too + adjective + infitive<br />

4. I couldn't finish my work because I was sleepy.<br />

+ I was I my work.<br />

100 t adjective t intinitive<br />

5. Jackie is young. She can't get married.<br />

+ Jackie is too .<br />

6. Sam didn't want to go to the zoo because he was busy.<br />

+ Sam ....<br />

7. I'm W. I can't eat another sandwich.<br />

-+ I....<br />

8. I don't want to clean up my apartment today. I'm lazy.<br />

-+ I....<br />

EXPRESSING ABILITY 293

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